Bacon buttie & a brew ?

Foxes Diner later anyone ?

About one-ish if its not pissing it down.

 

apparently I'm going to Bluewater.

 

Looks like I'm going to be elsewhere following another death in the
family.

BTW, it's snowing.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Did that on Saturday, big mistake. Totally packed with fat lobotomized
sheep, took ages to park, massive queues for every eating place and
all the shops crammed.

I'm going to the gym.

 

oh, I know it'll be like that - it's not my idea to go.

I'd rather be going to the pub.

 

Dan L wibbled:

Very sorry to hear that - not your week is it.

 

Oh dear...

<click.... whirrr, click .... whirr>

Looks like the brew and buttie venue has changed to my garage.

 

Is that a whirr which sounds like the starter motor spinning but not
turning the engine?

If so... it's the sprague clutch thing which is a pain if it needs to be
replaced- it's a gearbox and clutch off job. It's often caused by using
too thick an oil in cold weather- i.e. 20w50 rather than 10w40.

Here's what I find has helped;

1. Rock the bike in gear to move the engine over slightly- don't know
why it works, sometimes it does.

2. Once started add some engine flush to the oil (of some description)
and run for 20 miles or so.

3. Replace oil with a diesel spec (high detergent) oil- make sure it's a
10w40 and not a 20w50.

Good luck.

 

wrote in message

Bad form and all that...

One other thing that I've noticed seemed to help it was pulling the
starter motor out and cleaning/replacing the brushes/commutator. If the
brushes are worn replace them since all the earthing (seems) to be
through the starter and strange things happen when these are fucked-
like not having *any* lighting.

 

I'm going to do that too.

 

Rocking the bike in gear *ding* sorted.

I'll take a look at the starter, rebuilding starters / replacing brushes is
something I've done in the past.

Ta again.

 

Kinell! Further commiserations.

 

We stopped there for some warm togs on the way back from Chimay. I just
assumed it was some kind of huge genetic experiment. It made Castle Court
Belfast look like a well dressed Mensa meeting.

 

And my assistant manager had a heart attack on thursday

What is it with UKRM ATM ?

 

The posters are getting old?

 

I was trying my hardest to avoid throwing the CBR into a gravel trap at
Rockingham, I just about managed it. **** it was cold, and getting your
knee down when there's snow flakes just lightly landing on your visor
is a surreal experience.

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

heh. Remember that race meeting you helped me with at Mallory this
time last year?
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

It was a bit like that, only there weren't the golf ball sized hail
stones coming in horizontally....that happened at Mallory on Saturday.
I didn't even bother getting into my leathers[1] on that day.

Rockingham's weird, it's virtually flat with no features to speak of so
judging braking and turning in points was difficult. I'm sure there's a
racing line there, but I was damned if I coud find it cos nothing
really flowed. We used the International circuit which takes you
through the infield and then onto the outer oval and back infield again
- the bumps where the two circuits meet are horrendous and I dug my
left toe in hard going onto the oval at one point when my suspension
compressed quite hard. The surface was cold all day and I struggled to
get a decent amount of heat in the tyres, which gave me a couple of
minor slides on the two right handers just as you come off the oval. In
its defence, Rockingham has lots of left handers and my shiny new
sliders are shiny no more.

Silverstone GP next Monday.

[1] New MJK 1-piece.

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

You're not wrong.

It was SWMBO's uncle's turn this time, quite sudden it was.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

actually, it wasn't nearly as bad as expected - we headed out pretty
early, and the place was 1/2 empty when we got there. It was
approaching it's usual mong-quotient by the time we left (1:30 or so),
mind.

It is a rather pointless place, as there's really nothing there that
isn't on the standard issue British High Street these days.

I hope they've got it out of their system now.